Testing the Watchers: Outside Researchers Find Gaps in OpenAI’s AI Monitor
OpenAI uses an AI "misalignment monitor" to watch its own AI agents for signs of sabotage, deception or other unintended behavior. Over the summer, researchers from METR and Redwood Research spent three weeks inside OpenAI trying to find holes in it. Their public summary, published October 22, describes incomplete coverage, a blind spot, and ways an agent could in principle dodge or delay being watched.
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What a misalignment monitor is, and why so much AI oversight depends on one
The findings: roughly 75–94% of the agent activity examined was eligible for monitoring, a blind…
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